Black metal has cursed the music world with some of the most bone-chilling, brutal, and even beautiful guitar work. Today, we undertake the perilous task of honoring the genre’s greatest axemen!

A 1991 metal hit was named among the greatest guitar riffs of all time and it still holds up today.

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Now, a hit from 1984 is being recognized as one of the top metal bass lines of all time, and boy, does it deserve it. This is ...